Jamaican Entree
JERK CHICKEN
INGREDIENTS
4 chicken breasts or about 3 pounds
1 cup green onions
1 white onion
3 garlic cloves
3 tablespoons jerk spice
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 teaspoon allspice
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons water
6 tablespoons vegetable oil
PREPARATION
Cut chicken into squares 1-inch wide. Dice green onions, onion, and garlic. Put chicken in mixing bowl. Add green onions, white onion, garlic, jerk spice, cinnamon, thyme, and allspice. Coat the chicken squares thoroughly with the spices. Add soy sauce and water. Mix again. (If your hands aren’t completely messy, you haven’t been mixing enough. Oh. Oh.)
Cover mixing bowl and refrigerate for 3 hours. (Three hours? You mean after all this work I can’t eat it for three hours? Dear reader, I feel your culinary pain. Still, this dish is worth waiting for. However, for those who have ravenous, important, career-changing guests arriving in just one hour, next time read the recipes through before attempting them, for goodness sakes.)
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Put chicken into one or two baking dishes. Coat chicken with cooking oil. Bake for about 50 minutes.
TIDBITS
1) Water covers about 71% of the Earth’s surface.
2) Chicken breasts do not.
3) However, there is a rough equivalence of water and chicken breasts on the surface of the Moon.
4) More and more scientists are suspecting water exists below Mars’ surface.
5) They are, however, strangely silent about the possibility of chicken breasts as well.
6) Or even drumsticks.
7) The old line, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” was developed on Earth and according to current knowledge was never even told when astronauts roamed the Moon.
8) But the joke continues to be told on Earth even though NASA’s manned-lunar program is over.
9) Hah!
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